LIKE a scene from a sci-fi movie, NASA releases an amazing video of a tentacle-like eruption, measuring 800,000km long above the sun.

Josh Wall

News Corp Australia NetworkSeptember 4, 20127:48pm

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured vision of a very long, whip-like solar filament extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun’s surface.
Filaments are cooler clouds of solar material that are tethered above the sun’s surface by unstable magnetic forces.